Average Error: 0.0 → 0.0
Time: 5.4s
Precision: 64
\[a \cdot a - b \cdot b\]
↓
\[\left(a - b\right) \cdot \left(a + b\right)\]
a \cdot a - b \cdot b
↓
\left(a - b\right) \cdot \left(a + b\right)
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r111835 = a;
        double r111836 = r111835 * r111835;
        double r111837 = b;
        double r111838 = r111837 * r111837;
        double r111839 = r111836 - r111838;
        return r111839;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r111840 = a;
        double r111841 = b;
        double r111842 = r111840 - r111841;
        double r111843 = r111840 + r111841;
        double r111844 = r111842 * r111843;
        return r111844;
}

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\[\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(a - b\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 0.0

    \[a \cdot a - b \cdot b\]

  2. Simplified0.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(a - b\right) \cdot \left(a + b\right)}\]

  3. Final simplification0.0

    \[\leadsto \left(a - b\right) \cdot \left(a + b\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019212 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Difference of squares"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (* (+ a b) (- a b))

  (- (* a a) (* b b)))